Format
Brief
City
Los Angeles
State/Province
CA
Country
USA
Metro Area
Los Angeles
Project Type
Special Use
Location Type
Other Central City
Land Uses
Civic Uses
Education
Recreation
Keywords
Dense developments
Public-private partnership
School district expansion
ULI Awards for Excellence 2006 Winner
Date Started
2001
Date Opened
2012
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For nearly three decades, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) had no comprehensive construction program and had not built a single new high school. The nation’s second largest school district—which spans more than 704 square miles (1,824 k) and serves 727,000 students living in Los Angeles and 26 additional municipalities—was in the throes of an overcrowding crisis, forced to bus thousands of students to schools many miles outside their communities and to place more than half of the district’s student population on an abbreviated academic calendar. Moreover, the city and surrounding municipalities were running out of land on which new, large-scale schools could be built.
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Format
Brief
City
Los Angeles
State/Province
CA
Country
USA
Metro Area
Los Angeles
Project Type
Special Use
Location Type
Other Central City
Land Uses
Civic Uses
Education
Recreation
Keywords
Dense developments
Public-private partnership
School district expansion
ULI Awards for Excellence 2006 Winner
Date Started
2001
Date Opened
2012
Developer/Owner
Los Angeles Unified School District
Los Angeles, CA
Architects (partial list)
Arquitectonica
Los Angeles, CA
Gensler
Santa Monica, CA
Gonzales/Goodale Architects
Pasadena, CA
Leidenfrost/Horowitz & Associates, Inc.
Glendale, CA
Nadel Architects, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
PBWS Architects
Pasadena, CA
Rachlin Architects
Culver City, CA
R.L. Binder, FAIA Architecture and Planning
Playa del Rey, California
tBP/Architecture
Los Angeles, CA
Westburg + White, Inc.
Tustin, CA
William Loyd Jones Architect
Venice, CA
Principal Authors
Julie Stern and David Taksuye
ULI Awards for Excellence 2006 Winner